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GIVING LIFE TO LIFE: A Spring Retreat

Join Joshin Brian Byrnes during this weekend retreat giving us the rare opportunity to drop into the deep questions related to time, life, death, rebirth, and no birth no death. On Saturday, a day trip is scheduled to the ancient Pueblo ruins and cave dwellings of Tsankawi.

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Episode Description: In this talk Dr. John Dunne offers a summary of, as well as his own insight into, the material presented by the previous Zen Brain speakers. His elucidation of the Buddhist philosophical perspective on society, culture and context is engaging and insightful. Dr. Dunne lays the foundation for his discussion by providing brief […]

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Episode Description: Prof. Dunne investigates the meaning of ethics in the Buddhist world. Specifically focusing on the complicated relationship between non-dual traditions, such as Mahāmudrā or Zen, and ethics. Prof. Dunne begins by discussing “natural” ethics, which in Buddhism is codified as the dasa-sila, or Ten Precepts. He then moves on to work with the […]

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Series Description: Increasingly, cognitive science presents us with a vision of mind as grounded in the complex transformative processes of life, while neuroscience presents us with a vision of the brain as a complex adaptive system that constantly reshapes itself in response to context, experience, and practice.How can this vision of complexity and transformation enrich […]

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Series Description: This three-day seminar, offered during Upaya’s winter sesshin, explores the bodhisattva story, one of the hallmarks of Mahayana Buddhism. Using Shantideva’s (8th century CE) classic text “The Way of the Bodhisattva” as a guide, we investigate what is distinctive about the bodhisattva story, what kinds of practices a bodhisattva engages in, and how […]

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Episode Description: This joint Dharma talk, offered by John Dunne and Al Kaszniak, touches upon the ideas of transformation, intention, and expectation from contemplative practice, neuroscience, and complex systems points of view. John begins with the contemplative practice perspective, explaining that we conceive of ourselves as agents in a world full of objects, some of […]

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Series Description: The Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna (ca. 150 C.E.) famously articulated the notion of emptiness or sunyata as a tool for understanding ultimate reality. Based on selected primary texts such as his Wisdom, this seminar explores Nagarjuna’s thought and its powerful effect on subsequent Buddhist philosophy. Inquiring into the key concept of sunyata, we will […]

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Upaya Zen Center has a Google+ Community on Engaged Buddhism. Please visit & join this growing and active community. Series Description: The Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna (ca. 150 C.E.) famously articulated the notion of emptiness or sunyata as a tool for understanding ultimate reality. Based on selected primary texts such as his Wisdom, this seminar explores […]

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Upaya Zen Center has a Google+ Community on Engaged Buddhism. Please visit & join this growing and active community. Episode Description: In this outstanding talk, John begins by situating the Heart Sutra within the larger corpus of Prajnaparamita literature. He explains that although there is much variation in how the sutra has been translated, the […]

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GIVING LIFE TO LIFE: A Spring Retreat from April 3 - 5, 2015.This weekend retreat gives us the rare opportunity to drop into the deep questions related to time, life, death, rebirth, and no birth no death.